{"id":8902,"date":"2011-04-16T14:41:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T19:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=8902"},"modified":"2011-04-16T14:41:23","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T19:41:23","slug":"liturgy-translation-surprisingly-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2011\/04\/16\/liturgy-translation-surprisingly-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Liturgy translation &#8220;surprisingly good&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Hamilton, writing for Eureka Street (a monthly publication of Australian Jesuits), is sanguine about the new missal translation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"lblBody\">My own judgment, based on a limited reading, is that,  considering the narrow instructions governing its preparation, the new  translation overall is surprisingly good. In less skilled hands the  result could have resembled Inspector Poirot&#8217;s English. 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